Scenes from the nuclear theater of a long cold war: In the 1940s and '50s, when Americans still trusted their doctors and their government, researchers subjected hundreds of ill-informed people to ...

Formed in the heat of the Vietnam War, MACV-SOG was a top-secret unit composed of the best operators from across the U.S. military, tasked with carrying out classified missions behind enemy lines.

In June 1946, with millions dead and much of Europe still in ruin, top secret meetings were being held in Washington and London to prepare for the unthinkable. For American intelligence chiefs, the ...